Can’t get user post_count in WordPress using get_the_author_posts

3 Views

I’m having troubles with getting a post count (total) for users.
I think it has to do the get_the_author_posts, which should give me the users total post – expressed as a number. 

function all_authors_list() {
    $authors = get_users(array(
        'role'      => 'subscriber',
        'orderby'   => 'post_count',
        'order'     => 'DESC',
        'number'    => '20',
        )
    );

    foreach($authors as $author) {
        echo '<li class="author-name">' . $author->first_name . ' ' . $author->last_name . '</li>';
        echo '<div class="author-post-count">' . $author->get_the_author_posts() . '</div>';
    }
}

All of this works, except the author post count line.
Any ideas?

Read More

(thanks in advance 🙂

Post Views: 3

Related posts

Leave a Reply

2 comments

  1. Kindly try this one :

    echo '<div class="author-post-count">' . get_the_author_posts() . '</div>';

    instead of

    echo '<div class="author-post-count">' . $author->get_the_author_posts() . '</div>';

    And you can also try this one :

    echo '<div class="author-post-count">' . count_user_posts(your_author_id) . '</div>';

    Hope this helps..

  2. You can use count_user_posts() to get the post count for a user.

    See: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/count_user_posts

    In your case:

    function all_authors_list() {
    $authors = get_users(array(
        'role'      => 'subscriber',
        'orderby'   => 'post_count',
        'order'     => 'DESC',
        'number'    => '20',
        )
    );

    foreach($authors as $author) {
        echo '<li class="author-name">' . $author->first_name . ' ' . $author->last_name . '</li>';
        echo '<div class="author-post-count">' . count_user_posts($author->ID) . '</div>';
    }
}